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'THE RAKE'S PROGRESS' Josipovici on the libretto

BENJAMIN LEES Nicolas Slonimsky

BLACHER, DALLAPICCOLA two tributes

WEBERN'S SKETCHES (II) Roger Smalley

REVIEWS Books & records.

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GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI is a lecturer in the School of European Studies at the University of Sussex. He was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian and Romano-Levantine parents and lived in Egypt from 194.J until 19J6, when he came to Britain. He has published two novels, and has written several plays for radio, as well as the widely-acclaimed study of modern fiction The World and the Book. His recent collection of stories and plays, Mobius the Stripper, has been awarded the 197J Somerset Maugham Prize; and a new novel, The Present, will be published in July.

NICOLAS SLONIMSKY, b. 1894 in St. Petersburg, settled in the U.S.A. in 1923. He has been a dis- tinguished advocate of contemporary music as pianist, conductor, composer, teacher, theorist, musicologist and lexicographer since the early 1920's. His most important books include Music since 1900, Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, The Lexicon ofMusical Invective and the recent editions of Oscar Thompson's International Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians and Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. His compositions include My Toy Balloon for orchestra and 100 balloons, Mobius Strip Tease for soprano and tenor, and / Owe a Debt to a Monkey for voice and piano.

STEPHEN PRUSLIN (b. 1940 in New York) is a founder member of the Fires of London. He studied piano with Eduard Steuermann and is well-known as an interpreter of contemporary piano music; he is also the librettist of Harrison Birtwistle's opera Punch and Judy.

ARIBERT REIMANN (b. 1936 in Berlin) studied with Boris Blacher and Ernst Pepping. His works include the operas Melusine and Ein Traumspiel, Loqui for orchestra, the ballet Vogelscheuchen (with Gunter Grass), two piano concertos, the cantata Verra la Morte, and the requiem for baritone, cello and orchestra Wolkenloses Christfest. His tribute to Blacher appears by kind permission of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin.

KEITH WINTER (b. 1940 in London) studied music with Bernard Rands and Reginald Smith Brindle at Bangor. From 1967 to 1969 he worked with the Arts Council, dealing with opera, contemporary music and jazz. He is now a lecturer in physics and music at Cardiff University, and director of the electronic music studio there.

Reviews by FREDERIK PRAUSNITZ (Ivesiana), PETER HILL (Tippett Sonatas), ANTHONY PAYNE and SALLY DUNKLEY (Delius literature), and HUGO COLE (Andrew Porter's A Musical Season) are held over until the next issue.

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A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF MODERN MUSIC

No. 113 - June EDITED BY DAVID DREW ASSISTANT EDITOR CALUM MACDONALD

'THE RAKE'S PROGRESS': THOUGHTS ON THE LIBRETTO> Gabriel Josipovici BENJAMIN LEES IN EXCELSIS Nicolas Slonimsky RETURNS AND DEPARTURES: RECENT MAXWELL DA VIES Stephen Truslin

WEBERN'S SKETCHES (II) Roger Smalley IN MEMORIAM Blacher Aribert Reimann Dallapiccola David Drew

REVIEWS Recordings '11 Prigioniero' Misha Donat Stravinsky Eric Walter White Weill Hugo Cole Milner Hugh Wood Exhibitions Xenakis Srigitte Schiffer Books Electronic Music Synthesis Keith Winter

LETTERS Hans Keller, Roger Woodward

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